St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-19
In New York Judpp DOuOIup of the 81.

Q1dateS for the office OF Chlet OF the Dlreal-
of elections. Mr. O. Brien has held the office
of chief of the bureau for fifteen years. lie
recently underwent a civil service eNamlna-
ton with view to reappolntment ana OBJ
tanned the highest number of points. but
three ex-soldiers who came next on the score
were given precedence.
Joseph Chamberlain, British fisheries COM
missioner, has arrived in New York on the
steamer Etruria. Mr.. Chamberlain refused
to speak about home politics, but said he IN
tended to remain in the country couple OF
months after the adjournment OF the com
mission, in order to study our institutions.
The Secretary of the Interior has received
from Inspector Armstrong, at the Crow
agency, the following telegram: Refractory
Indians all delivered and in guard-house but
one; he will be delivered soon. The leader
was killed in a skirmish. Balance of Crows
in camp quiet and submissive. No more
trouble need be feared, as the Crows will be
peaceable and contented in the future. The
whole matter has been we'll managed and
successfully terminated by the troops Cen
eral Ruger agrees with me and the suggestion
once and held until further disposition is
decided upon.
General John C. Black. commissioner Of
pensions, has left Washington for a tour of
inspection of the Soldiers Homes in the
West. He will be accompanied by Generals
Franklin, Negley, Mcmahon and Hyde;
Governor Martin, Of Kansas, ex-senator
Sewell, and others, managers of homes, and
will go as far as the Pacific coast, to select
the site for the new branch home to be es
tablished there.
About seventy representatives of towns in
terested had a conference with Governor
Lounsbury, in Hartford, Conn, and urged
the calling of a special session of the Legisla-
ture for action in the grade crossing matter.
The Supreme Court Of the United States
has affirmed the judgment of the lower court
in favor of the Reading railroad in the suit
brought by the government for the recovery
of $4,000 for unpaid taxes on undivided
profits.
The Treasury Department decides that
horse-clipping machines are dutiable at the
rate of thirty-tive per cent ad valorem as
cent. ad valorem as manufactures of steel,
as assessed by the collector at San Francisco.
The Court Of Claims has rendered decision
in the French spoiation cases, which, on tech
nical grounds, will exclude large proportion
of the losses.
A telegram from Scottdale, Pa, says 700
miners at the Alice mlnes cokewOrks went
f.s1, ~,
boss to furnish the necessary posts and caps.
1t is expected the trouble will be adjusted in
a few days.
All the brassworkers who were locked out
in New York have returned to work, with
the exception of few polishers. They
went back at the request of their employers,
to work tifty-nine hours per week. 1t is said
all the polishers will now strike for tifty-tive
hours work per week.
The printers in the four leading job print
ing offices in Louisville have struck because
of the refusal Of the proprietors to advance
the price of composition on bOokwork to
folty-two and a-half cents per 1000.
The board of public works of Jersey City
has decided to give the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company the privilege of elevating its
tracks on Railroad avenue.
The first truss of the great Poughkeepsie
bridge across the Hudson river has been
finished and swung clear. It is the longest
steel truss in the world, being 525 feet long
between the centres of the towers, eighty
two feet deep and thirty-five feet wide. 1t
rests on steel towers 100 feet high, which
stand on masonry piles having foundations
l25 feet below high-water mark, and which
rise thirty feet above high water, the total
height from the foundations being 337 feet.
The bridge carries floor system on top for
q double-track railway, and can support
rolling load of 5000 pounds to the running
foot on each track.
A Cheboygan, Mich, dispatch says the
damage and total loss to vessel property for
The month of October, in the straits and vi
einity, from Fore island to Hammond's
bay, on Lake Huron, can be fairly estimated
at $4,000. Eighteen lives were lost.
David Snowberger, living in Quincy town.
ship, Pa, went cunning recently. While
up an embankment his gun was ac-
discharged and the top of his head
was blown off, causing instant death.
The steamer I. c. Harris, from Bluefelds,
or New Orleans, with 1000 punches of ba-
1anas, thirty tons of rubber and other goods,
struck the Toro reefs recently and sank in
wo hours. Her crew escaped in the boats.
The vessel and cargo are a total loss.
By the explosion of boiler in sawmill
lear Knoxville, Ga, three men were killed
md another fatally scalded. The boiler had
oeen twenty years in use.
While five men were smoking in shanty
It Bridgeport, W. Va, spark fell into keg
# powder, blowing up the house. Two of
he men, F. Richter and Julius Buckholtz, |
we're killed, and the others were injured, per-
laps mortally.
While 'workmen were closing gas well in
'iffin, O., under direction of contractor
famed j. D. Welsh and in presence of Solic-
tor Keppel and J. Rex, leak was discov-
red, which could not be located. Mr.. Kep-
'el struck match and an explosion fol-
owed, burning all three in terrible man.
Ter about the face, neck and hands. 1t is
bought all will recover, though Keppel may
ose both eyes
Alva Miller has died at his home near
Walden, N. Y, from injuries received by
eing dragged distance of three miles by
lnaway team. He became entangled in the